THE TRUTH IS NOT FOR ALL MEN, BUT ONLY FOR THOSE WHO SEEK IT. ~Ayn Rand
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~Galileo Galilei
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~Niels Bohr
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. ~ the prophet Isaiah
Let’s be honest, we all like to think of ourselves as honest folks. Nobody likes to be called a liar.
But if we’re going to be real here, we must confess our propensity to not seek the truth, to believe our fantasies, and stubbornly close our eyes to the reality around us. It’s not easy to seek the truth.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. ~Sir Winston Churchill
In your personal life, we believe lies about ourselves all the time. At work, being to honest can get you fired real fast. In the community, speaking truth to power can be dangerous.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is, sometimes we benefit by little lies. Sometimes we have something to gain by not beleiving the truth about the ways our lifestyle is detrimiental to others in our region.
Who wants this to be true? Not me.
If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out. ~Oscar Wilde
But when I seek the truth, I must be willing to hear the ways I was wrong. And accept not just the judgment, but the correction and the new direction.
Whenever you have truth, it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. ~Mahatma Ghandi
We’d like to believe that our seeking the truth only has personal consequences. But as the prophet Isaiah points out, it’s the widows and the poor that often bear the brunt of our blindness to the truth. When we don’t seek the truth, injustice prevails.
While we often become victims of our own deception and lies, many others also are afflicted by them too, sometimes directly, other times indirectly.
It’s human to be deceived, and be prideful. So we must take the courage given to us to seek the truth. It is to this end that God in Jesus makes known his word and will – it is to this end that he works in the world.
To those that seek truth they will find the Lord. And as Jesus said, the truth will set you free from the bondage of lies for the flourishing of all.
Love truth, and pardon error. ~Voltaire
FICTION IS OBLIGED TO STICK TO POSSIBILITIES. TRUTH ISN’T. ~Mark Twain